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Commit 74381fbb authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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drivers: clocksource: add support for ARM architected timer event stream



The ARM architected timer can generate events (used for waking up
CPUs executing the wfe instruction) at a frequency represented as a
power-of-2 divisor of the clock rate.

An event stream might be used:
- To implement wfe-based timeouts for userspace locking implementations.
- To impose a timeout on a wfe for safeguarding against any programming
  error in case an expected event is not generated.

This patch computes the event stream frequency aiming for a period
of 100us between events. It uses ARM/ARM64 specific backends to configure
and enable the event stream.

Change-Id: I43906fa7d083a2c611c2047e15c34d68bb047ac7
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarOlof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[sudeep: moving ARM/ARM64 changes into separate patches
         and adding Kconfig option]
Signed-off-by: default avatarSudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com>
Git-commit: 37f637767a82907efedda78d3ff405c34020075
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git


[tsoni@codeaurora.org: Fixed trivial merge conflicts]
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
parent 28890934
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